{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = Hongkongia songi - Lawrence Hylton - 375544491.jpeg | image_caption = ''Hongkongia'' sp. from Hong Kong | image2 = | image2_caption = | taxon = Hongkongia | authority = Song & Zhu, 1998<ref name=wsc /> | type_species = ''[[Hongkongia ellenae|Hongkongia wuae]]'' | type_species_authority = Song & Zhu, 1998 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 7, [[#Species|see text]] }}
'''''Hongkongia''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Gnaphosidae|ground spiders]] that was first described by D. X. Song & Ming-Sheng Zhu in 1998.<ref name=song1998 />
==Distribution== Spiders in this genus are found in [[Asia]] from [[India]] to the [[Philippines]] and [[Indonesia]], with one described species [[endemic]] to [[West Africa]].<ref name="wsc" />
==Etymology== The genus is named after [[Hong Kong]]. See the taxonomy section for details.
==Taxonomy== Originally, specimens collected in 1995 by Ms. Wu of Hong Kong were designated as the type species ''Hongkongia wuae''.<ref name=song1998 /> In 2024, this species was found to be the same as the previously described species ''[[Geodrassus]] ellenae'' <small>Barrion & Litsinger, 1995</small> with a distribution from [[China]] to [[Sulawesi]] and the [[Philippines]]. Hence ''G. ellenae'' was moved to genus ''Hongkongia'' and is now the type species by synonymy.<ref name="lin2024" />
In 2019, [[Yuri M. Marusik|Marusik]] and [[:species:Mikhail Mikhailovich Omelko|Omelko]] moved the West African species ''[[Echemus]] incinctus'' <small>Simon, 1907</small> to this genus based on the structure of the male palp.<ref name="marusik2019" />
The genus ''Hongkongia'' was revised in 2009, describing a new species [[endemic]] to [[Taiwan]], which the authors found to be very similar to ''H. reptrix'' <small>Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001</small>. They concluded that the genus is close to ''[[Megamyrmaekion]]'' <small>Wider, 1834</small>.<ref name="zhang2009" />
==Species== {{as of|2025|10}}, this genus includes seven species:<ref name="wsc" /> {{Div col}} * ''[[Hongkongia caeca]]'' <small>[[Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold|Deeleman-Reinhold]], 2001</small> – [[Indonesia]] (Moluccas) * ''[[Hongkongia ellenae]]'' <small>(Barrion & [[:species:James Allen Litsinger|Litsinger]], 1995)</small> – [[China]], Indonesia (Sulawesi), [[Philippines]] * ''[[Hongkongia incincta]]'' <small>([[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1907)</small> – [[Ivory Coast]], [[Guinea-Bissau]] * ''[[Hongkongia liutang]]'' <small>Lin & Li, 2023</small> – China * ''[[Hongkongia novia]]'' <small>Sankaran & Tripathi, 2023</small> – [[India]] * ''[[Hongkongia reptrix]]'' <small>Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001</small> – [[Japan]], China, Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Bali) * ''[[Hongkongia songi]]'' <small>Zhang, Zhu & Tso, 2009</small> – [[Taiwan]] {{Div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/942 | title=Gen. ''Hongkongia'' Song & Zhu, 1998 | publisher=World Spider Catalog | doi=10.24436/2 | accessdate=2025-10-20}}</ref> <ref name="lin2024">{{cite journal | last=Lin | first=Y. J. | year=2024 | title=Taxonomy notes on twenty-five spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from China | journal=The Indochina Entomologist | volume=1 | pages=35-48 | doi=10.70590/ice.2024.01.06}}</ref> <ref name="marusik2019">{{cite journal | last1=Marusik | first1=Y. M. | last2=Omelko | first2=M. M. | year=2019 | title=Redescription of gnaphosids (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) described by O. Pickard-Cambridge from the material of the Second Yarkand Mission | journal=Arthropoda Selecta | volume=28 | pages=277-290 | doi=10.15298/arthsel.28.2.11| doi-access=free }}</ref> <ref name="song1998">{{cite journal|last1=Song|first1=D. X.|last2=Zhu|first2=M. S.|year=1998|title=A new genus and two new species of Hong Kong spiders (Gnaphosidae, Corinnidae).|journal=Journal of Hebei Normal University, Natural Sciences|pages=104–108|volume=22}}</ref> <ref name="zhang2009">{{cite journal | last1=Zhang | first1=F. | last2=Zhu | first2=M. S. | year=2009 | title=Review of the genus Hongkongia (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from China | journal=Zootaxa | volume=2164 | pages=61-68 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2164.1.6}}</ref> }}
==External links== * {{inaturalist taxon}}
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[[Category:Araneomorphae genera]] [[Category:Gnaphosidae]] [[Category:Spiders of Asia]] [[Category:Spiders of Oceania]]
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